I learned of a website today at POPVOX.com. It lists all the bills introduced in the House so far and allows you to support or oppose with emails to legislators.

There are probably several sites like this, but this was easy to use and informative.

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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Ronald Reagan

As with most people, gun control bills have been on my mind lately and of course what freedoms our elected officials plan on taking away.

With so many guns out in the public sector, banning anything really seems futile in my thought process and confiscation i really don't believe has a chance in hell. However, controlling ammunition whether by something like HR 142 or maybe even better- price controls. When a single bullet cost 1, 2, or even 3 bucks you have really made a lot of the guns on the street nothing more than a club.

Maybe investing in reloading equipment and learning to reload might be a good idea.

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"Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program" - Spencer W. Kimball"Life isn't about trying to survive the storm; but about learning to dance in the rain" - unknownLuck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity

ALL HAIL OBAMA called Caesar!! or maybe Chairman Obama... the founding father of The United Socialist Police State of America!

I'm blown away by the little or no coverage this bill has gotten, i believe it failed anyway but still. I live in the hell hole known as NY and until i found that web site, i had never heard of this. This bill from one of our corrupt NY congressmen follow on the heels of our mafia family Gov. Cuomo's gun ban which is even more restrictive than the unnameable evil-one from CA.

NY's gun ban even includes direct reference to the second amendment and it would require EVERY INDIVIDUAL LINE of the bill to be deemed unconstitutional LINE BY LINE in order to defeat any piece of the legislation! It also defines AR-15's as weapons that are only purposed for the killing of human beings since they don't need to "aimed" and "spray" fire.

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-Practice until you get it right, train until you can't get it wrong.-"You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension." N. Tesla

The fact that the left has the cojones to introduce legislation to try and remove term limits to the anointed one can try to stay in office smacks of arrogant hubris. What the he!! is going on in this country?

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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." - Winston Churchill

As with most people, gun control bills have been on my mind lately and of course what freedoms our elected officials plan on taking away.

With so many guns out in the public sector, banning anything really seems futile in my thought process and confiscation i really don't believe has a chance in hell. However, controlling ammunition whether by something like HR 142 or maybe even better- price controls. When a single bullet cost 1, 2, or even 3 bucks you have really made a lot of the guns on the street nothing more than a club.

Maybe investing in reloading equipment and learning to reload might be a good idea.

I was doing a little thought experiment on the potential consequences of bans, etc. In round numbers:

The federal court system processes 83,000 cases a year.There are 200,000 federal prisoners.There are 70 to 100 million gun owners.A petit jury for a criminal trial has 12 members.

Assuming not all gun owners own items that would be subject to ban, and not all wish to commit acts of civil disobedience, a 1% noncompliance rate should a safe low-ball figure.

So, that is between 700,000 and 1 million new cases the federal court system would have to address the day after a ban on possession is implemented. There is no way the court system can be expanded 8.5 to 12 times its present size to prosecute all the disobedient gun owners. In FY 2010, their budget was $7 billion. It would have to go to $84 billion give or take.

If one grand jury heard each case for only one minute, it would take about 2 years running nonstop to issue all the indictments. Speedy trial anyone?

Imagine if everyone of the 1 million accused then demanded jury trials. That could be up to 12 million citizens called to jury duty.

If each trial lasted 2 days, that is almost 5,500 years of trials - the equivalent of all of recorded human history.

What if they all refused deals, the prison system or probation/parole system cannot be expanded 3.5 to 5 times to house everyone who kept an aluminum or steel or plastic tube that David Gregory possessed without consequence.

Then there is the appellate process.

Simple noncompliance could easily overwhelm the system.

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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Ronald Reagan

That is a very good point Jack Crabb. That is very similar to the actions that have gotten the red light cameras out of many cities. I myself refused to pay a couple of those tickets. I feel that those simple actions made a big point. I am happy to point out as well that no consequences were felt for that little bit of civil disobedience. The system depends on compliance, especially on a subject as emotionally charged as the second amendment.

Those are interesting numbers... especially thinking along the lines of only 1% non compliance of the population.

My fear however, is that they are extremely picky about who and what they go after with their powers.

For instance, you leave the rural states and population centers alone, and just enforce the suburban and highly populated areas.

In other words, blue state vs red state enforcement.

they could also enforce those that have stuff to loose - threaten to take kids away and put them "in the system" and you suddenly get a lot of compliance. Make examples out of a few and the rest will fold.

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"Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program" - Spencer W. Kimball"Life isn't about trying to survive the storm; but about learning to dance in the rain" - unknownLuck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity

I learned of a website today at POPVOX.com. It lists all the bills introduced in the House so far and allows you to support or oppose with emails to legislators.

There are probably several sites like this, but this was easy to use and informative.

http://www.opencongress.org/ does a good job of this also. I like to click on "bills", then click on "hot bills on OC". Takes you right to gun rights bills and other hot topics and provides a quick glance at the popular opinion.

http://www.opencongress.org/ does a good job of this also. I like to click on "bills", then click on "hot bills on OC". Takes you right to gun rights bills and other hot topics and provides a quick glance at the popular opinion.

I'm fond of GovTrack.us. You can create your own "docket"; basically a home page with all the bills you are tracking and their current status.

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“The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit. ” -Julia Child

(U//FOUO) The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return ofmilitary veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communitiescould lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremistscapable of carrying out violent attacks.

Thanks Cooter! I wonder how the CCW portion would apply to VT, where anyone 18 or older can carry openly or concealed without a permit?

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"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."- Edward Gibbon